Rapporteur

José Francisco Calí Tzay continues to meet with Indigenous leaders and advocates until March 10 where he will release his preliminary findings and ...

Although the National Advisory Committee on Residential School Missing Children and Unmarked Burials didn't get a chance to meet with Calí Tzay, committee member Dr. Just finished a meeting with Francisco Cali Tzay, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. I appreciated the frank and open discussion on the challenges Canada faces in addressing historic and current injustices towards Indigenous Peoples. We discussed the need for justice, accountability and full reparations for Survivors, their families, communities and for the children still in unmarked burials. Survivors and I met with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Tyohtyà:ke this evening. She said the need to support communities with finding missing children is another important step forward.